This is the first of three Christmas episodes from the eight-season run of Full House. If you’re looking for general info about the episode, you can find a lot of it here. The basic plot is that the family is heading to Colorado for Christmas, yet everyone ends up snowed in at an airport.
To me, as a fan of the show, this is definitely a classic episode. Although it’s one of the rare moments (and maybe the first?) where the family leaves San Francisco together, that’s part of what makes it great. Even on an airplane or in an airport, the show still works. It’s also a chance to see the Tanners interact with a whole bunch of strangers, which is also kind of fun. (On a side note, my kids think it’s funny that Jesse and Joey are always just included in “The Tanners,” when they clearly have different last names.)
Although it’s kind of weird that Jesse’s parents (the Katsopolises) are joining them for a “Tanner” family trip, they’re really here to encourage Jesse’s pursuit of Becky, which feels OK. In fact, going back and watching all of the episodes, I guess I never realized that there wasn’t a whole lot of courting. For most of the first half of this season, Jesse doesn’t seem to stand a chance. Yet after their first kiss in this episode, things go pretty quickly, and the season ends with them almost getting married. So this episode is clearly the turning point for Jesse and Becky.
Of course, the highlight happens when Santa appears, and everyone later realizes it wasn’t actually Joey. See, you guys? Christmas came after all.
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Milton: I kept my ice cream there for a few years, but as Chilly and Milly — Frosty and Crystal’s children — grew up and learned the story of that summer, they approached me and said perhaps I should just pay for my own freezer instead. I think they considered me something of a troublemaker, even though I’m just a guy trying to keep his ice cream cold. At one point, Milly even says to me, “Look, just stay away from my dad.”
Milton: It’s funny. The circus did become a big success, after all that trouble we went through, but then Laine’s mom, Ms. Loraine, decided she would be happier doing a rodeo instead. Go figure. We even roped Rudolph into it for a year or two, cowboys riding on his back while he did his jumps and all that. There wasn’t really a place in the rodeo for Laine though, so she helps me with the ice cream business now. I think she’s happy in our marriage. She talks a lot about the old days.
Milton: Like I said, I was in love! You saw how cute Laine used to be. Would you be thinking about anything else? Besides, whatever trouble these weirdos got up to once I got them there had nothing to do with me. Could I have been a better friend? Sure. Between you and me, I was one of the people booing Rudolph when his nose didn’t light up anymore. And it wasn’t even because I thought he stole from the circus. You just get swept up by the crowd, you know? As for the fireworks, they were boring. Very generic.
Milton: Rudolph is not a funny person. No offense to him or anything, but have you ever heard him tell a joke? No. I’m not the most hilarious guy in the universe, but I know how to have a good time. You don’t get to a place in life where you fly a hot air balloon from Florida to the North Pole for an ice cream pick-up while dating a tight-rope walker without learning a joke or two. So to this un-funny reindeer, I’m sure I was a regular Shecky Greene. Personally, I thought Frosty was funny, always making dark jokes about he and his family melting, but I don’t think Rudolph got half of those.
Milton: Frosty not so much. His kids see to that, not that I was going to go out of my way to visit him or anything. I barely knew him beyond that summer. Rudolph and I have kept in touch. Laine likes him or whatever, and the Center for Disease Control says that animals do not play a significant role in the spread of the coronavirus, so we hang out a lot now. We play a lot of Scrabble.
We know Robert Wells and Mel Torme wrote “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” in the summer, attempting to stay cool on a hot day, which we discussed on 
Any music fan who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s knows that whenever there was nothing on television, we could always switch over to MTV (and later MTV2, VH1, or even Fuse TV) to catch some music-related videos or content. While most of those opportunities are gone now, I’ve found that AXS TV can be a suitable replacement and will check the channel from time to time and at least DVR a few of the upcoming shows. The AXS original series like Classic Albums, Rock Legends, The Big Interview, and AXS TV Concerts can be pretty good, and I also sometimes watch the Top Ten Revealed. (If you don’t know about AXS TV, I recommend checking your cable to see if you get it.)
Snow in Southtown Christmas Podcast 